Gracious Lords to whom I intend to write

(Excerpt) '... that you wrote to me, I had not suspected. The world is even stranger to me, I am not well. My heart, and indeed against my whole feeling! now stands again in the Cold Land, where it seems to me that humanity is still treated below its dignity. (...) I am certain that after centuries many things will happen to me there - without preset goals.

My first escape will be to Prague, and then perhaps further to Dresden. You could well write to me how much the journey from here costs, whereby how soon I leave from here, I cannot determine. (...) The Internet as a new way of thinking helps first. But I ask you to always write to me as often as you can, do not let the distance diminish me. I am grateful for any help, like to drink old Rhine wine.

If I thus received a small number of bottles and names of the most gracious gentlemen to whom I intend to write. ...

L.v. Beethoven'